Comments on: Europe Unites to Invest $40 Billion in Huge Off-Shore Renewable Energy Super-Grid

By: Andrea Bakurva

Andrea Bakurva — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 11:30:00 +0000

Wow so great picture,, i like the view also $40 billion wow its worth it coz look at the view so nice and has waterfalls,, maybe so many people visit here.

By: Sandra Hopkins

Sandra Hopkins — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 11:17:46 +0000

Seeing from the past projects, hope this will turn out good. I’ve been late in posting this reply. How was this project now? Did it turn out well?

By: Chandler Camp

Chandler Camp — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 17:56:02 +0000

That’s a lot of money to spend, I sincerely hope they find renewable energy for that price tag.

By: Phyllis Stephen

Phyllis Stephen — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 11:46:55 +0000

You mention wave power from Belgium in your article, but the largest wave energy generator is in fact installed in the sea just off Orkney.

Aquamarine Power’s innovative Oyster device is the world’s largest working hydro-electric wave energy converter. Aquamarine is a Scottish company and you can see the device in action on Youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4O0JcNfTKo

By: Phyllis Stephen

Phyllis Stephen — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 11:46:00 +0000

You mention wave power from Belgium in your article, but the largest wave energy generator is in fact installed in the sea just off Orkney.

By: Mac McDougal

Mac McDougal — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 23:23:24 +0000

I am surprised at the negative tone of the comments so far. I see nothing but good things here. In fact, I copied the URL and sent it to a broadcast list of my friends, asking them to contrast the Europeans’ rapid and technically sophisticated actions with America’s petro-lobby-induced slumber. The Europeans have shown that it *is possible for a set of capitalist societies to act for the good of the globe. And that, my nay-saying friends, is good news.

By: Mac McDougal

Mac McDougal — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 23:23:00 +0000

By: Uncle B

Uncle B — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:03:04 +0000

As an expanding Asia demands more of the finite world resources, and Americans with a weak U.S. dollar are unable to compete, Europeans already far behind fall further behind the “Power of the Yuan” and with oil scarcity a fact, and Asian thirst for black gold a reality, the Western World of Democracies will have to depend less and less on oil and more on Solar Wind Wave, Hydro, Tidal, Geothermal and Nuclear /Electric projects just to maintain the status quo! This re-distribution of power sources has already caused painful paradigm shifts in American society, where the “V-8″ engine is replaced by Foreign four cylinder engines, and GM(America) the SUV maker to the world struggles with bankruptcy and $80.00 /bbl oil. The Arabs, through lenses tinted by religious and financial fervor have misled the world on reserves available, and will soon be caught with dry wells as Yemen experiences today! Coal will be king again for a short while in America out of necessity, as will Nuclear, until coal and nuclear fuel cartels make the perpetuity of Solar Wave, Wind, Tidal, and Geothermal power more attractive to long term investors, and America will follow suit with Europe in development of Electric Bullet train intercity networks(400% more efficient) to replace the oil hungry jet planes and highways it now uses. Subways, trams and trains will abound as mankind switched in the next few decades from an overabundance of oil to electric power, right down to the battery cars we will all drive. Europe is in simple preparation for the inevitable as the oil wells run dry, and only very expensive oil is found in very deep, difficult wells, or Tar Sands, is found. Little “Sweet Light Crude” left close to surface, even by satellite search is found. Turkmenistan and the Afghanistan pipe-dream of Halliburton(Dubai) belays this as true, Why else would they go to such trouble for so little resource, if other drill targets were available to them? America is on its last “Oil Hunt” and the government there knows it! Expect Shocking news from the deluded Saudis, and soon!

By: Uncle B

Uncle B — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:03:00 +0000

By: juangault

juangault — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 02:31:05 +0000

They better get this ok’ed with the spire builders, or the future folks will just ignore it and let it fall apart.

By: juangault

juangault — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 02:31:00 +0000

They better get this ok’ed with the spire builders, or the future folks will just ignore it and let it fall apart.

By: chrisp68

chrisp68 — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:14:46 +0000

So JJ we should just forget the whole idea and just keep burning everything? We can’t keep releasing all the stored up energy from millions and millions of years of sunshine.

By: chrisp68

chrisp68 — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:14:00 +0000

So JJ we should just forget the whole idea and just keep burning everything? We can’t keep releasing all the stored up energy from millions and millions of years of sunshine.

By: JJ

JJ — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:38:45 +0000

I sure hope that if any nuclear is still standing in the EU they might be allowed to get on this super grid party line. I didn’t see nuclear mentioned anywhere, oh well they must have turned the last one off. Good job Greenpeace!

By: JJ

JJ — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:38:00 +0000

By: Regina

Regina — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:42:13 +0000

Hopefully this project will pay for itself (and then some) in no time. Best of luck to them!

By: Regina

Regina — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:42:00 +0000

Hopefully this project will pay for itself (and then some) in no time. Best of luck to them!

By: Santo Clause

Santo Clause — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:12:36 +0000

Judging by past projects, they’re in for a lot of bickering before it gets going. Anything involving a group of countries will be a mess. Like that whole

Iraq thing. Good luck.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_positioning_system

It will be better than GPS when it’s done.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro

Not that the US dollar is doing very well with all of the debt…